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Speaker Baloch protests Zardari arrival at White House
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by Ahmar Mustikhan | May 6, 2009 at 09:19 pm
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The DC-based American Friends of Baluchistan has congratulated the brotherly Baloch International League for the rally in front of the White House on Wednesday to expose Pakistan army brutalities against Baluchistan.
"Former Speaker Waheed Baloch, government minister Dr. Tara Chand and Waja Razzaq Baloch, must be commended for their decision to bring the Baluch issue to the attention of the world. The A.F.B. will side with Speaker Waheed Baloch or any other secular Baluch organization through thick and thin," AFB presiding council members Mohammed Ali Baloch and Waja Karim Bakhsh, formerly of Qatar,said in a statement on Thursday.
Speaker Baloch had planned the rally at the UN headquarters in New York against the killing of his close friend Waja Ghulam Mohammed Baloch by Pakistan's secret services, but shifted the venue to Washington DC in view of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's arrival, along with the chief of the infamous Inter Services Intelligence Lt. Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha, in Washington D.C. for talks with President Barack Obama.
Ghulam Mohammed Baloch, 45, was abducted along with Lala Munir Baloch, 50, and Sher Mohammed Baloch, 35, by Pakistan's infamous Inter Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence, shot in the head and their bodies dropped from a military helicopter in the outskirts of Turbat last month.
Speaker Waheed Baloch and Dr. Tara Chand were close friends of the slain leader Ghulam Mohammed and had worked with him in the secular and progressive Baloch Students Organization, the main voice of Baluch youths and students. The BSO has thousands of supporters.
"Passers-by showed great interest in the rally," said Professor Jawaid Bhutto, a friend of Baluchistan in Washington DC, who attended the rally.
Bhutto said Afghan President Hamid Karzai turned around to look at the protesters curiously.
The two A.F.B. leaders said the Baluch have to be vigilant against paid agents who try to erect a fifth column in the Baluch international movement for their personal gain. "The A.F.B. vows to unmask the faces of such elements," the two leaders said.
The A.F.B. also thanked Munnawar Laghari, former director of the World Sindhi Institute, for his help, attendance and speech at the Baloch International League rally.
The A.F.B. has a simple two-point agenda: right of national self determination for the Baluch people and ending Pakistani and Iranian military occupation of Baluchistan.
[Text of Speaker Waheed Baloch speech to be posted shortly].
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at 01:57 on May 13th, 2009
media reporting have always been a result of policy backed media sources. The fact of the matter is that the there have always been some tribes that have been ProPakistan eg Magsi,Jamali,Raisani etc so have been some Brahui tribes eg Zehri. Mengal is a Brahui tribe. Now there have also been tribes that have supported anything that was not Pro Pakistan. Among them are the two Baloch tribes Bugti and Marri and the Brahui tribe of Mengals. The Bugti have based their loyalties with pakistan with the royalties of the gas fields in their area of Dera Bugti. The Marris have been anti Pakistan since time immemorial as they have been anti Bugti, anti development hence anti anything that is non Marri. They and Mengals have been however Pro Soveit Union. It is a well documented history of their affair with the USSR and how they were anti Americans during 1970s and paving way under BSO auspices to form a communist government in Balochistan.Now since USSR does not exist they do not mention their support for the communist regime as America was fighting communism and has credited Pakistan for being its ally during Afghan wars.
Excerpt" Mehrullah Mengal was commander of the group and trained the group for many attacks. In 1979, thousands of Balochis were trained in Afghanistan for attacks, while it was under Soviet occupation. BPLF is still active but most of its members are underground.Baluch People's Liberation Front also received support from the Afghan and Indian authorities." Political Terrorism: A New Guide to Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, & Literature By Albert J. Jongman, Alex Peter Schmid, ISBN 1412804698
at 12:41 on May 8th, 2009
at 02:22 on May 11th, 2009
hi friends ...
IN this time we are not supose to talk in here we must go and struggle about our freedom in here we can not get freedom pakistani stublishment comes to our country and hiting us .. we are talking in here we get freeedom it s not possible let come together snatch freedom ......that s all then we ll get fredom other wise not